Quote by David Allen

Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.

— Erik Larson

“Write the words "The FIve Senses" on an index card and tack it to a bulletin board above your desk. You should have a…

— Dani Shapiro

“First, you need something to organize: ideas, material, scraps of expertise, recipes, prognostications, anecdotes, scurrilous gossip, anything that might be relevant to what you…

— Patricia T. O'Conner

I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.]…

— Lawrence Wright

“On Memory: Imagine a desk covered with papers. That is everything you are thinking about. Now imagine a stack of file drawers behind it.…

— Jedediah Berry

“Some very smart people have devised ingenious ways of dividing up a notes page to get more out of it. One method reserves the…

— Chuck Frey

I'm an inveterate note taker - I scribble all these things down on pieces of paper. I wanted to create some way of organizing…

— Mitch Kapor

“Outlines can help, but not if you begin with them. If you begin, instead, by writing down everything, by spewing out your ideas as…

— Howard S. Becker

I often spend the majority of my time thinking and writing down notes.

— Miguel McKelvey

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

— William Safire

I keep a notebook of ideas, and sometimes ideas form in your head that you just have to write down, or you'll forget them.

— Himesh Patel

“I have never written a novel yet...without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and starting again,…

— P.G. Wodehouse